I'm planning on taking my R for service. Any suggetions on which ones I can go to, without worrying about my car. Last time I took my car to a dealership (Montclair Acura) I didnt have a pleasant experience.

Oh yeah my car is grinding when I down shift from 5th to 4th between 80-90mph. Is this natural? Never had this problem b4. Any info would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

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I don't think the grinding is normal
you may try to change the tranny oil to see if it will improve the situation.

P.S. I'm 2 number ahead of you ........ You're the closest R (in number) I've ever found so far

 

Are you rev matching? If not, and you force it in, its going to grind and keep getting worse as you wear down the syncro's.

 

That's consistent with my own experience at Montclair Acura.

Maybe someone here can recommend someplace else in the area...

 

a sign of possible syncro wear.... try double clutching / rev matching.

either way I'd get it checked out anyhow.

Acura of Ramsey is good. Tom is the service mediator there. Great guy.

So is Acura of Denville. I know the owner and hes a head mechanic in the place. He does good work, but sometimes can be a ********.

HTH!


[Modified by Soup ****, 11:02 AM 7/11/2002]

 

I heard that Pard Ave Acura does pretty good service.

 

stay away from park ave acura if you care about your car . I know the owner of that place too

 

if you can hit Greenwich Acura in CT. They have done alot of great work on my car . I needed to get an allignment and they couldnt do it with my wheel/tires, but they hand washed my car for FREE!!!! It was awsome!! After the mess i had with Bedford Hills, Greenwich was a great change. Oh and they have a crap load of NSX that they service so their guys are top notch.

 

next time you hold a BBQ and should I go, i'll schedule some maintenence in

 

There you go.
The best part is that the serive managers will make fun of rice with me...


[Modified by Megatron, 11:09 AM 7/11/2002]

 

Stay away from the following:

Acura of Denville - dumb *****!!
Acura of Wayne - Stoopid mechanics
Acura of Montclair - Aholes

I like Acura of Sommerville. All the good Honda mechanics try to get a job there because they seem to be the most knowledegable and actually have some history with honda motors.

They replaced my motor and the car is rock solid.

Don't know much about Ramsey.

-Nick

 

Sussman Acura in Mt. Laurel is good to go to. After its fixed, they make sure your car is in the same way you brought it to them. When I got my new wheels and had my tires mounted, they even called me up to let me know that there would be a chance that the wheel could be scratched because the tires were low profile. When I got the wheels back, everything was still perfect.

 

Brunswick Acura on RT 18 in New Brunswick, they are the top Acura Dealer in NJ, and their service is top notch.

 

Paragon, in Queens is really good and are willing to hook up R owners. I spoke with Michael T. when I was there last time and he said no prob bring everyone in and He'll take car of the personally.

http://www.paragonacura.com
(718)392 8882 ext 118


Just mention Rob with the R sent you...

 

Precision Acura of Princeton is the way to go...they've been nice to me while I lived in NJ and didn't care about all of the mods I did to the car (if this fits your case)...I bought the car there and the guys there are great!

 

Montgomeryville(sp?) Acura in PA is a pretty good place. i was told they have one of the best service departments in the US.
there are also cool since it only took them 10 minutes to find me a car.